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...long and into the night, envoys shuttled between the King's villa in picturesque Ravello and the nearby villa where U.S. and British diplomats were lodged. In Naples next day Vittorio Emanuele III broke a long silence...
...leaders of Italy's anti-Fascist parties last week made a compromise. They had been confused by Anglo-U.S. dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...Vittorio Orlando had not died under Gestapo guns, as British newsmen in Switzerland reported. From the Rome radio last week came a denial of the story. From Italy's aged (84), retired World War I premier came an alleged comment: "If I was shot, it must have been done with the greatest delicacy, for I assure you I really was not aware...
...among the 300 was Marshal Bado-glio's son, Mario. Another was Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84, Italy's member of the Big Four who made the Versailles Treaty. The onetime Premier withdrew from public life in 1925, abandoned even the teaching of law when the Fascists asked an oath of loyalty in 1931. Orlando had been living quietly near the Porta Pia, just happened to be passing...
Reported Dead. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 83, Italy's member of the Versailles Conference's Big Four; shot as a Nazi hostage; in Rome...